Oliver Clyde Fuller

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Oliver Clyde Fuller 1860 - 1942

Banker, financier, pioneer golfer. Fuller was a direct descendant of American Revolutionary War Generals, Tennessee Governor John Sevier, and French royalty. He graduated from the University of Georgia (BS, 1880). He married Kate Fitzhugh Caswell in 1881 and they had six children. Fuller and Caswell took over management of her father's estate in Milwaukee. In 1891 he moved to Milwaukee and in 1893 founded the O C Fuller Co., an investment firm. In 1903 he founded and became president of the Wisconsin Trust Co., which took over the Fuller Co. He was a leader in the creation of the First Wisconsin Group (a bank and trust firm), serving as president of the First Wisconsin National Bank, the First Wisconsin Trust Co., and the First Wisconsin Co., which later became Firstar, the bank that bought U.S. Bancorp, currently the 6th largest bank in the US by assets. He was treasurer and trustee of Forest Home Cemetery, which was run by St. Paul's Episcopal Church. Active in many businesses and athletic clubs, he was a trustee of the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co., and a director of the Wisconsin Telephone Co., Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co., Milwaukee Gas Light Co., Wisconsin Securities Co., Wisconsin Public Service Co., Milwaukee Mechanics Insurance Co., Milwaukee Refrigerator Transit Co and the Milwaukee Auditorium Co. He was a member of council of American Bankers' Association, 1908-10; elected to chairmanship of executive committee of the Trust Company Section, American Bankers' Association, 1908; vice president, 1909; president, 1910. Wisconsin Society Sons of American Revolution (formerly president) ; Wisconsin Society of Colonial Wars, Phi Delta Theta Society of Univ. of Georgia. Recreations: Golf, horseback riding. He retired from business life in 1926. Fuller was an avid golfer, credited with helping bring the game to the Midwest. He was a founder and President of prominent Milwaukee golf, tennis, yacht and athletic clubs. An article in The American Golfer in 1915 called him a pioneer golfer in the Cream City.